When z is pronounced correctly, it sounds like "zee" when uptight, pissant, backwards old-world countries pronounce it, it sounds like "zed".
Note that there's 280 million Americans and only about 120 million Brits, Canadians, Australians and Kiwis combined, therefore the numbers vote for "zee".
The Indians, however might swing the vote, but I'm not sure how they pronounce it.
I'm an American living in Spain. My in-laws live in Ciudad Real and my wife and I live in Madrid. The distance between the two cities is roughly that of Los Angeles to San Francisco (where I used to live).
Going to see my brother in L.A. was a 4 hour ordeal: Drive to the airport (fighting massive traffic the whole way there), parking (and paying), checking in and getting my SouthWest brown seat number card (if you're late, you're fscked), filing onto the airplane, waiting in a cramped cabin for takeoff (hopefully no delays and hopefully you've eaten and/or gone to the bathroom beforehand), 1 hour (barely) in flight, arrive in LA, find my brother, fight traffic out of the airport, etc. Not a fun experience.
Anyone else play this game and think to yourself you might be able to get to LA faster by driving?
Here in Spain there's a bullet train, the AVE (which means bird in Spanish) which goes between Madrid and Seville, half way between is Ciudad Real where my in-laws live. Going to visit them is a 2 hour breeze. We walk from here to the Metro, 20 minutes later we arrive in a gorgeous early 19th century train station that's been remodeled, we walk down to the train, show our tickets, walk down to our carriage, board onto a huge train with big seats where you can walk around, go to the bathroom and get something to eat (and smoke, for those idiots who like that sort of thing), etc. The train zips out of the station on time smooth as silk, flies through the countryside and arrives an hour or so later at the little town where we desembark and grab a taxi or get picked up.
J2ME doesn't have multimedia capabilities just yet. There are multimedia extensions in the works right now, but it'll be a year or more before we see them in mobile phones.
The BREW stuff is Qualcomm's proprietary method for doing this stuff and IMHO not going to be around for the long haul, once Sun gets the multimedia stuff worked out.
I think the keyboard is pretty cool. If they wacked another $150 off the price and made it in b&w, I'd buy it tomorrow. (I know, I know. But I'm a cheap bastard.)
What I do think is funny is that after a decade of different devices with different handwriting recognitions, the latest and greatest gadget is a PDA with a keyboard that could have easily been done years ago. Imagine if Apple just skipped the handwriting recognition in the Newton and included a thumb keyboard? Of if Sharp had just figured out that the keyboard needed to be used by your thumbs in all those Zaurus models?
It would have saved probably 6 cumulative months of my life in time I've spent trying to get Graffiti to actually work.
I agree that it's a good idea, but I'm doubtful also.
My reasons are that even though Im a college dropout, Im still a decent programmer and can help on a variety of Open Source software projects without problems. Despite what the geek in the black t-shirt in the dark corner in the back of your office wants you to think, programming is NOT brain surgery or rocket-science. (Well, I guess some of it is, if you're working in a Hospital or for NASA, but for the vast majority of us, it's not.)
However, the sort of problems they seem to want to solve require HARD science with real scientists, medics and mathemeticians. These guys are going to be a lot farther and fewer between than us hacks. The numbers just don't seem to be there for these type of project...
I've always thought the clones were, you know, real clones. Of people. It seems that they're robots from what I've seen/read about AotC. Is this right or wrong?
I think I read a sequel book to Star Wars where a "clone" of one of some Dark Jedi Admiral was taking over what was left of the Empire... I assumed, or maybe read, that this was using the same techniques as in the Clone Wars?
Someone help me out with my understanding of the Star Wars Universe...
I've been sort of wondering when we're going to see an online Sports game where all the players on the opposing teams are controlled by real people. This is sort of the holy grail of sports video games... Virtual pick-up games.
Then it would be cool "tune-in" to games in progress. This might be good content for that 24 video games channel that was just launched. People from all parts of the world (within decent ping times of course) could form virtual teams, etc. Play in virtual tournaments, etc.
Holy crap! I had forgotten this email I got exactly a year ago tomorrow from a friend of mine named Will:
I just spent all day as a driver on the film set of the Matrix II in Alameda. My girlfriend was signed up with an agency and somehow we both got invitations to be drivers today. They have this unbelievable 1.5 mile long 'fake highway' built on the abandoned air landing strips at Alameda Naval Station. There were about 50 drivers, and basically our job was to drive alongside or in the opposite lane while they were filming to make it look like real traffic on the highway. We got paid $100 for the day but also a lunch of lobster tails and filet mignon. The first Matrix movie made $450 million, so it's not surprising that they have a massive budget to film the sequel. Anyway, if you see Matrix II when it comes out next year, keep an eye out for me in a silver Pathfinder.. I'm bound to be in there somewhere!
I'll have to review the trailer (when it's not slashdotted) to see if I can see the Pathfinder...
I have, and I don't have anything that it can find.
I'm actually chatting on irc://moznet/mozillazine right now and I just confirmed that other people go to oingo.com when they type "find:" with some text in their url bar. like "find:blabblah".
That's very interesting. Now I just wonder why it does this when I start the mail app with the mozilla.exe -mail command...
Oh Christ. What a dumbass reply. I hope that you were trying to be funny because if not you're a total moron.
Get a clue... I was asking whether or not this minor detail will be addressed in the 1.0 release. I'm quite sure no one wants the crappy icons that I would come up with anyway (I'd probably just copy Netscape's like I did for my toolbar...)
Does anyone know if Mozilla plans on using different icons for Mail, Chat, Browser etc.?
I use Mail all day and open several browser windows and if I'm not careful to open the Mail app first, I can never find it because all the icons are the same!
Here's another weird thing - When I open my Mail first, it always opens a browser window trying to find: something and forwards to www.oingo.com owned by IdeaLabs. Do I have some sort of spyware on my computer or is this normal? I can't find anything in the prefs.js file... I'm using RC2 right now and it seems to do the same thing...
"A wealth" of ebooks? Yeah right. If you're a total freakin' nerd. There's 1) Programming boooks 2) Sci Fi and Fiction (only from the most popular/oldest authors including Harry Potter) and 3) How to get laid for Dummmies (No joke). And there's absolutely nothing in Spanish (which is a thing of mine since I live here in Spain and want stuff to practice on).
I've thought of doing EXACTLY what this guy is doing. I hope there's some good advice... I can't wait until ebooks are as popular on Gnutella as MP3s.
I wanted to reply just to say I appreciate your opinion. But I was actually being a bit sarcastic when I said 'hood before. I'm sure this guy wasn't living in the real "hood", just a normal city neighborhood which has a mix of different people's and thus isn't always perfect. I was saying hood as a form of hyperbole like gosh it's SO lucky you escaped the hood...
But hey, I grew up in Lynn, Mass. Anyone who knows that place knows it isn't nice. Regardless, I resent people who wall themselves off from society thinking they can somehow escape its problems. I lived in Atlanta for a couple years, that's a perfect example of this type of thinking gone to extremes. All the poor people keep to the city and all the richies (normally the white people) escape to the suburbs to their gated and closed communities. There's not even sidewalks connecting them - if you want to use the bus (only for the poor people, obviously) you need to wander along the highway in the dirt paths that some other poor sucker made before you.
So hey, I'm realistic. If I was the hood, I'd want to get out too. But to a gated community? That's just the same extreme but on the opposite end of the scale.
Gosh, it sounds like you were lucky to escape with your lives. How did you ever manage living with "those" people in such an unsafe area?
Yep, you would be an elitist alright. A cold and sterile rich guy living in your safe little world where no one is ever upset and nothing is every stolen. Much better than trying to stick it out in the 'hoods. Good for you, your parents will be proud and your children will be better people for your example.
You're an idiot. (Heehee, I copied that from one of your earlier posts...)
Gated communities are nothing but economic discrimination at its worst. And this type of discrimination usually takes into account all other types of discrimination including racism, sexism, elitism, etc. Your justification for separation of people is pretty disgusting, actually: Those "other" people aren't worthy to live near you. You have a level of society that you think is acceptable and you think that people who are below that level aren't worthy of your interaction. And you think this is fine? What an elitist you are... $10 says you have a gun in your house and you voted for Bush.
I don't mind people being rich. I mind when they think they are special or better because of it.
Or does "gated community" have nothing but negative connotations?
I mean, unless you're one of those stuck-up, afraid-of-the-world, protect-my-possesions at-the-cost-of-community, keep-me-away-from-the unwashed-masses type of person who lives in one, I can't imagine anyone using these words in a good way...
I'm part of the Sun Certified J2EE Architect Yahoo Group email list preparing for the 3 SCEA exams and I'd say that 50% or more of the people posting are from India judging by their names (which really signifies little, I know) and the constant requests for where to find specific books in differing parts of India... And these guys know a TON.
A country like that with low wages, super-high education and English speaking is perfect for a world connected by the Internet. I've read that there are still a lot of problems with managing a team in another country, but I think those problems will go away quickly because the rewards for making it work are so huge.
It's pretty obvious to me too that we're going to see a LOT of work moving overseas soon.
...should make his website look crap for the viewers to easily make the difference?
Of course not... I'm saying that because his site is good looking, it doesn't give the reader immediate visual feedback that maybe this site isn't created by a professional organization like the school itself.
...only if the website is (intentionaly?) misleading, which doesn't seem to be the case here...
I disagree. I think the guy intentially places the disclaimer so small at the bottom of the page to encourage confusion.
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When z is pronounced correctly, it sounds like "zee" when uptight, pissant, backwards old-world countries pronounce it, it sounds like "zed".
Note that there's 280 million Americans and only about 120 million Brits, Canadians, Australians and Kiwis combined, therefore the numbers vote for "zee".
The Indians, however might swing the vote, but I'm not sure how they pronounce it.
-Russ
Huh. That sort of makes sense. So maybe the next letter will be one of the ones that rhyme with "e"
b, c, d, g, p, t, v, z
z is past. So is v (virtual). None of the rest are particularly sexy, though maybe I'm missing something...
-Russ
No, I disagree: "M" for mobile will be hot.
Example: mMode
Err. I can't think of more. Someone help me out.
-Russ
I'm an American living in Spain. My in-laws live in Ciudad Real and my wife and I live in Madrid. The distance between the two cities is roughly that of Los Angeles to San Francisco (where I used to live).
Going to see my brother in L.A. was a 4 hour ordeal: Drive to the airport (fighting massive traffic the whole way there), parking (and paying), checking in and getting my SouthWest brown seat number card (if you're late, you're fscked), filing onto the airplane, waiting in a cramped cabin for takeoff (hopefully no delays and hopefully you've eaten and/or gone to the bathroom beforehand), 1 hour (barely) in flight, arrive in LA, find my brother, fight traffic out of the airport, etc. Not a fun experience.
Anyone else play this game and think to yourself you might be able to get to LA faster by driving?
Here in Spain there's a bullet train, the AVE (which means bird in Spanish) which goes between Madrid and Seville, half way between is Ciudad Real where my in-laws live. Going to visit them is a 2 hour breeze. We walk from here to the Metro, 20 minutes later we arrive in a gorgeous early 19th century train station that's been remodeled, we walk down to the train, show our tickets, walk down to our carriage, board onto a huge train with big seats where you can walk around, go to the bathroom and get something to eat (and smoke, for those idiots who like that sort of thing), etc. The train zips out of the station on time smooth as silk, flies through the countryside and arrives an hour or so later at the little town where we desembark and grab a taxi or get picked up.
The difference is amazing...
-Russ
J2ME doesn't have multimedia capabilities just yet. There are multimedia extensions in the works right now, but it'll be a year or more before we see them in mobile phones.
The BREW stuff is Qualcomm's proprietary method for doing this stuff and IMHO not going to be around for the long haul, once Sun gets the multimedia stuff worked out.
-Russ
Flash may be able to play the quicktime video. Apple is suing Sorenson for licensing the codec to Macromedia.
But I have no idea if this is true or not, just a suposition.
-Russ
Ahem,
I know I speak for the vast majority of
-Russ
P.S. Crap, I almost forgot... I'm already married. (With a new baby boy to show for it! Pics at the above home page, I'm a proud papa.)
I got all excited there for a sec. I was talking about a b&w version of the Treo 90.
-Russ
I think the keyboard is pretty cool. If they wacked another $150 off the price and made it in b&w, I'd buy it tomorrow. (I know, I know. But I'm a cheap bastard.)
What I do think is funny is that after a decade of different devices with different handwriting recognitions, the latest and greatest gadget is a PDA with a keyboard that could have easily been done years ago. Imagine if Apple just skipped the handwriting recognition in the Newton and included a thumb keyboard? Of if Sharp had just figured out that the keyboard needed to be used by your thumbs in all those Zaurus models?
It would have saved probably 6 cumulative months of my life in time I've spent trying to get Graffiti to actually work.
-Russ
I agree that it's a good idea, but I'm doubtful also.
My reasons are that even though Im a college dropout, Im still a decent programmer and can help on a variety of Open Source software projects without problems. Despite what the geek in the black t-shirt in the dark corner in the back of your office wants you to think, programming is NOT brain surgery or rocket-science. (Well, I guess some of it is, if you're working in a Hospital or for NASA, but for the vast majority of us, it's not.)
However, the sort of problems they seem to want to solve require HARD science with real scientists, medics and mathemeticians. These guys are going to be a lot farther and fewer between than us hacks. The numbers just don't seem to be there for these type of project...
But I could be, and hope I am, wrong.
-Russ
I've always thought the clones were, you know, real clones. Of people. It seems that they're robots from what I've seen/read about AotC. Is this right or wrong?
I think I read a sequel book to Star Wars where a "clone" of one of some Dark Jedi Admiral was taking over what was left of the Empire... I assumed, or maybe read, that this was using the same techniques as in the Clone Wars?
Someone help me out with my understanding of the Star Wars Universe...
-Russ
I've been sort of wondering when we're going to see an online Sports game where all the players on the opposing teams are controlled by real people. This is sort of the holy grail of sports video games... Virtual pick-up games.
Then it would be cool "tune-in" to games in progress. This might be good content for that 24 video games channel that was just launched. People from all parts of the world (within decent ping times of course) could form virtual teams, etc. Play in virtual tournaments, etc.
This could surpass real sports as we know them!
-Russ
Holy crap! I had forgotten this email I got exactly a year ago tomorrow from a friend of mine named Will:
I just spent all day as a driver on the film set of the Matrix II in
Alameda. My girlfriend was signed up with an agency and somehow we
both got invitations to be drivers today. They have this unbelievable
1.5 mile long 'fake highway' built on the abandoned air landing
strips at Alameda Naval Station. There were about 50 drivers, and
basically our job was to drive alongside or in the opposite lane
while they were filming to make it look like real traffic on the
highway. We got paid $100 for the day but also a lunch of lobster
tails and filet mignon. The first Matrix movie made $450 million, so
it's not surprising that they have a massive budget to film the
sequel. Anyway, if you see Matrix II when it comes out next year,
keep an eye out for me in a silver Pathfinder.. I'm bound to be in
there somewhere!
I'll have to review the trailer (when it's not slashdotted) to see if I can see the Pathfinder...
-Russ
I have, and I don't have anything that it can find.
I'm actually chatting on irc://moznet/mozillazine right now and I just confirmed that other people go to oingo.com when they type "find:" with some text in their url bar. like "find:blabblah".
That's very interesting. Now I just wonder why it does this when I start the mail app with the mozilla.exe -mail command...
-Russ
YYEEEEESSS!!! These are GREAT! Thanks!
-Russ
Oh Christ. What a dumbass reply. I hope that you were trying to be funny because if not you're a total moron.
Get a clue... I was asking whether or not this minor detail will be addressed in the 1.0 release. I'm quite sure no one wants the crappy icons that I would come up with anyway (I'd probably just copy Netscape's like I did for my toolbar...)
-Russ
Does anyone know if Mozilla plans on using different icons for Mail, Chat, Browser etc.?
I use Mail all day and open several browser windows and if I'm not careful to open the Mail app first, I can never find it because all the icons are the same!
Here's another weird thing - When I open my Mail first, it always opens a browser window trying to find: something and forwards to www.oingo.com owned by IdeaLabs. Do I have some sort of spyware on my computer or is this normal? I can't find anything in the prefs.js file... I'm using RC2 right now and it seems to do the same thing...
-Russ
"A wealth" of ebooks? Yeah right. If you're a total freakin' nerd. There's 1) Programming boooks 2) Sci Fi and Fiction (only from the most popular/oldest authors including Harry Potter) and 3) How to get laid for Dummmies (No joke). And there's absolutely nothing in Spanish (which is a thing of mine since I live here in Spain and want stuff to practice on).
I've thought of doing EXACTLY what this guy is doing. I hope there's some good advice... I can't wait until ebooks are as popular on Gnutella as MP3s.
-Russ
I wanted to reply just to say I appreciate your opinion. But I was actually being a bit sarcastic when I said 'hood before. I'm sure this guy wasn't living in the real "hood", just a normal city neighborhood which has a mix of different people's and thus isn't always perfect. I was saying hood as a form of hyperbole like gosh it's SO lucky you escaped the hood...
But hey, I grew up in Lynn, Mass. Anyone who knows that place knows it isn't nice. Regardless, I resent people who wall themselves off from society thinking they can somehow escape its problems. I lived in Atlanta for a couple years, that's a perfect example of this type of thinking gone to extremes. All the poor people keep to the city and all the richies (normally the white people) escape to the suburbs to their gated and closed communities. There's not even sidewalks connecting them - if you want to use the bus (only for the poor people, obviously) you need to wander along the highway in the dirt paths that some other poor sucker made before you.
So hey, I'm realistic. If I was the hood, I'd want to get out too. But to a gated community? That's just the same extreme but on the opposite end of the scale.
-Russ
Gosh, it sounds like you were lucky to escape with your lives. How did you ever manage living with "those" people in such an unsafe area?
Yep, you would be an elitist alright. A cold and sterile rich guy living in your safe little world where no one is ever upset and nothing is every stolen. Much better than trying to stick it out in the 'hoods. Good for you, your parents will be proud and your children will be better people for your example.
-Russ
You're an idiot. (Heehee, I copied that from one of your earlier posts...)
Gated communities are nothing but economic discrimination at its worst. And this type of discrimination usually takes into account all other types of discrimination including racism, sexism, elitism, etc. Your justification for separation of people is pretty disgusting, actually: Those "other" people aren't worthy to live near you. You have a level of society that you think is acceptable and you think that people who are below that level aren't worthy of your interaction. And you think this is fine? What an elitist you are... $10 says you have a gun in your house and you voted for Bush.
I don't mind people being rich. I mind when they think they are special or better because of it.
-Russ
Or does "gated community" have nothing but negative connotations?
I mean, unless you're one of those stuck-up, afraid-of-the-world, protect-my-possesions at-the-cost-of-community, keep-me-away-from-the unwashed-masses type of person who lives in one, I can't imagine anyone using these words in a good way...
-Russ
I agree...
I'm part of the Sun Certified J2EE Architect Yahoo Group email list preparing for the 3 SCEA exams and I'd say that 50% or more of the people posting are from India judging by their names (which really signifies little, I know) and the constant requests for where to find specific books in differing parts of India... And these guys know a TON.
A country like that with low wages, super-high education and English speaking is perfect for a world connected by the Internet. I've read that there are still a lot of problems with managing a team in another country, but I think those problems will go away quickly because the rewards for making it work are so huge.
It's pretty obvious to me too that we're going to see a LOT of work moving overseas soon.
-Russ
Of course not... I'm saying that because his site is good looking, it doesn't give the reader immediate visual feedback that maybe this site isn't created by a professional organization like the school itself.
I disagree. I think the guy intentially places the disclaimer so small at the bottom of the page to encourage confusion.
-Russ
"Tech-workers" is such a broad category, according to this JavaPro article, Java programmers are earning more than ever and working less to get it.
However, I'm a Java programmer and I don't have a job so you can't rely on everything you read.
-Russ